Next year Balzac found his truer self, overlaid with journalism, pamphleteering, and miscellaneous writing, in a Dutch painting of bourgeois life, _Le Maison du Chatqui-pelote_, which relates the sorrows of the draper's daughter, Augustine, drawn from her native sphere by an artist's love.

Spain, Argentina and Uruguay and we happened upon their annual tourney, held in this town - sorry I forget the name - but we had a real swanky lunch there amongst several pelote basque players - probably the biggest and best names in the sport for the whole world.